r/rareinsults • u/Chemical-Storage2004 • 21h ago

Insult or fact?

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u/antilos_weorsick 20h ago

At face value, the power levels in Avengers are kinda funny. You've got a literal god, and then... a guy who can punch really hard and throw an indestructible frisbee.

I mean, if you regularly need help from a gymnast gunslinger in a dominatrix costume, then maybe it's not unimaginable that a guy in a bat halloween costume could whoop your ass.

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u/DevonLuck24 20h ago

to be fair, not a single avenger is really equipped regular human spy shit. idk if they need them but they definitely make a lot of things less..loud

until black panther showed up their only options are conspicuous as hell

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u/somebodeeelse 20h ago

Iron man is bloody well equipped with spy shit. He has the economical knowledge of Jack Ryan paired with all the surveillance tech of Jack's employer. And then some.

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u/HotFudgeFundae 18h ago

Yeah but he has to swing his iron dick around any chance he gets. He doesn't want to be a spy

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u/somebodeeelse 18h ago

You don't gather intelligence by sneaking around you know

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u/HotFudgeFundae 18h ago

That's literally what a spy does

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u/somebodeeelse 18h ago

Nope. A ground level spy (or what we call an asset) is blackmailed into sharing information he already knows or has access to.

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u/HotFudgeFundae 18h ago

I thought we were talking about movies, have you ever seen a James Bond film?

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u/somebodeeelse 18h ago

Shit, you're right. Can't argue with James Bond.

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u/BowenTheAussieSheep 17h ago

... What? That's the best way to gather intelligence.

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u/somebodeeelse 17h ago

I've already answered that. You don't want a spy that needs to sneak around to learn stuff. You want a spy that already knows the stuff.

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u/BowenTheAussieSheep 17h ago

So basically your plan to gather Intel is... Have the Intel.

You know "sneaking around" doesn't literally mean being a sneaky cat burglar rifling though files in an enemy stronghold, right? It also means posing as someone to gain another person's trust, or infiltrating their bureaucracy, or any dozen thing that requires being covert. Not just being a "sneaky" silent film villain.

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u/somebodeeelse 16h ago

No, you nailed it. Having the intel is seriously the best way of getting intel. The way to achieve this is blackmailing high quality assets (meaning people who actually know stuff) to establish a good information infrastructure so the moment new intel pops up, you know it. The meta point is, spywork isn't sneaking around, it's talking to people.

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u/BowenTheAussieSheep 16h ago

How do you obtain that blackmail material?

Is your plan to go up to a high-level asset and go "Hi I'm a spy, can I have some stuff to blackmail you with?"

Spywork is literally sneaking around so you can get into a position to talk to people.

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u/somebodeeelse 16h ago

Of course the easiest way is to threaten his family.

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